Hideo Kojima has said it's going to be a "tough year" for him amid simultaneous production of Death Stranding 2 and OD, as well as other projects.
2024 is the Year of the Dragon, if you didn't know, and Kojima Productions put out the lovely artwork below in celebration. Kojima offered up a pretty lengthy message to accompany the new art, revealing he's got Death Stranding 2 and OD on the go at once, as well as a new writing project, the Death Stranding movie with A24, and the revival of 'HideoTube.'
Happy New Year, 2024 is the Year of the Dragon, so I asked Yoji and RYU to design a "Ryu (dragon) Dense (LUDENS)" for us.This year will be another year of simultaneous production of "DS2" and "OD". DS2 still has some ADR left, and we will start recording Japanese voice overs. I… pic.twitter.com/CZEu00QVRCDecember 31, 2023
'HideoTube' is a little YouTube channel where Kojima talks - extensively - about the latest movies he's watched. All of that is a lot to work on at once, so Kojima wants to limit his overseas business trips as much as possible. Maybe he won't be hanging out with Jordan Peele and Geoff Keighley quite as much this coming year.
The 'ADR' Kojima refers to there with Death Stranding 2 stands for 'Automated Dialog Replacement,' but don't worry, there's nothing automated or AI about it at all. It simply denotes actors recording lines to get their performance as close to lip-syncing movements for their characters as possible.
Death Stranding 2 hasn't even started Japanese voiceover recording, if you're wondering what else is still left to do on the acting side. The likes of Kenjiro Tsuda will probably be returning for the Japanese voice cast, which will probably take place after the English voice cast has completely wrapped its work on the forthcoming sequel.
Kojima announced back in 2022 that Death Stranding 2 is only a working title, so we don't even know the actual name of the new game. Here's hoping Kojima Productions is ready to share more details on the anticipated new game relatively soon.
You can head over to our new games 2024 guide for a look at all the games set to debut throughout the new year.
